During Operation Pillar of Defense, a relatively small, week-long assault on Gaza in 2012, the IDF employed over 2000 soldiers and officers to design pro-IDF content that could easily be propagated by their international supporters on social media.

"Social media is a warzone for us here in Israel".

"Yet there is also a large body of evidence that hard, visual imagery has been co-opted by the Israeli state to deny the reality of what Palestinians say they are experiencing. The Israelis claim that Palestinians are lying about their circumstances despite what we’re all seeing"

This, like all the similar MAGA tweets today, is totally wrong. The FBI did not tell Congress it had 275 agents in the crowd before the riot. It said it dispatched 275 agents to deal with the riot after it erupted.

I hate that we discourage earnestness in people. Everyone wants to appear nonchalant and unfazed. You're supposed to fear cringiness at all costs, everything's supposed to be a joke. This lady is honestly just exhibiting basic empathy...

Thank you Gustavo Petro for saying the inescapable strategy out loud: Win the global civil war.

Israeli navy is planning on arresting all the flotilla, putting the members on a prison ship and then sink all the boats of the flotilla

From an amazing article by Osita Nwanevu

In many of these graphs—whether they depict trends in literacy, or teenage depression and self-harm—you will see a worsening of the trend around mid 2013. Which is when IG introduced videos. A step function in the rise of passively consumed short-form social media content.

Donna Haraway

The very obvious reason why the loneliness epidemic is framed as a specifically male issue is because men’s feelings are coddled whereas women are almost *expected* to be depressed and lonely. Especially if they haven’t settled down with a man

Just heard a radio ad for protein soda, sods with 15 grams of protein per can. This has simply gone too far.

By all reports, there is a single building in Portland at which there are daily protests outside, which on some occasions have led to more aggressive crowd control efforts being deployed. The idea that Portland is "under siege" is just utterly made up.

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-…

What the (very limited) releases from the Epstein records show is 1) a very large number of people in Epstein's social and professional circle knew he was sexual predator who targeted minors 2) many in these circles aided and abetted Epstein before the fact and 3) the people in 1

PSL finally gets to be the target of modern COINTELPRO like they're always fearmongering about to silence internal criticism. Can't wait to see the Liberation News articles about how socialists need to support the traditional American nuclear family.

Forget working out you need to be doing ruck marches and practicing maneuvers in groups

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

During the raid where the Border Patrol agent bragged about seeing migrants as "animals," a man here LEGALLY, who was working LEGALLY was arrested and detained. Days later he was deported — without EVER getting his day in court. He says he signed nothing. x.com/David_J_Bier/s…

Important to acknowledge that this agent was working under Biden as well and is describing his time processing migrants during the last administration. x.com/typocatCAv2/st…